Health

Bangladesh reported eight more Covid-19 cases in the 24 hours till Tuesday morning. With the new cases, the country’s total caseload rose to 2,037,879, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS). However, the official death toll from the disease remained unchanged at 29,445 as no new fatalities were reported. The daily case test positivity rate rose to 0.44 ...

A large number of kidney patients of the country die every year in the country due to lack of proper and timely treatment, say experts. “If we can ensure timely and proper treatment to kidney patients then it is possible to save many lives,” Prof. Dr. Firoz Khan, former director of National Institute of Kidney Diseases & Urology (NIKDU) said. ...

Taking the emergency response plan of the hospitals with coordinated support is essential to address needs of urgent treatment of vulnerable patients including critical kidney patients in the country, viewed experts. The health experts came up with the recommendation while speaking at a roundtable titled ‘Kidney health for all; Duties for support of vulnerable at unexpected disaster’ at the Jatiya ...

Putting olive oil in coffee is hardly a tradition in Italy, but that didn’t stop Starbucks interim CEO Howard Schultz from launching a series of beverages that do just that in Milan, the city that inspired his coffee house empire. The coffee-olive oil concoction – echoing a keto-inspired trend of adding butter to coffee, only with a sugary twist – ...

The booster doses (third and fourth shots) of Covid-19 vaccines will remain suspended temporarily from Thursday as its stock has run out. Prof Ahmedul Kabir, additional director general of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), said this at a press conference at the DGHS conference room in Mohakhali of the capital on Wednesday. He said the stock of Covid-19 ...

FBI Director Christopher Wray has said that the bureau believes Covid-19 “most likely” originated in a “Chinese government-controlled lab”. “The FBI has for quite some time now assessed that the origins of the pandemic are most likely a potential lab incident,” he told Fox News. It is the first public confirmation of the FBI’s classified judgement of how the pandemic ...

Climate change and health resource website has been launched to provide specific Bangladesh data about comprehensive resource for understanding the effects of climate change on health. This website serves as a one-stop resource for the latest data, research, and information on this important and rapidly evolving topic. The website information was shared with journalists at a programme at the icddr,b ...

Under the leadership of the Communicable Disease Control (CDC) of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) and with support from the World Health Organization (WHO), icddr,b, and the Civil Surgeon Office of Noakhali, launched a cholera vaccination campaign in Noakhali’s Bhasan Char Monday. About 30,000 forcibly displaced Myanmar nationals (FDMNs), commonly referred to as Rohingyas, will be vaccinated using ...

Emergency medical equipment, including ECG (electrocardiogram) and X-ray machines, has been out of order for long in many government hospitals across the country, including in Dhaka, hampering treatment for the patients. Patients, particularly poor one, have been suffering a lot for long and are forced to receive diagnostic services from private health care facilities as emergency medical equipment remains out ...

A research team led by the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) has developed a new device to detect and analyze cancer cells from blood samples, which can help doctors to monitor treatment progress without conducting invasive biopsy surgeries, according to Xinhua reports. The study, published in Volume 223 of the Biosensors and Bioelectronics journal, displayed a high throughput static droplet ...